Ines Marie Potter

Ines Marie Lehigh Potter was a miracle from the very start. A doctor in Delta, Colorado decided she needed to be born, and he pulled her out with forceps on August 21st 1936!! She had scars on her head to prove it! She weighed 3 lbs., and had to be held against her mother’s body to keep her warm and breathing.

She grew up to be valedictorian of her class at Cedaredge High School, and married her husband of 63 years, Everett Leroy Potter, on Nov. 5th 1955. She had 2 children in 2 years, Terri Ann and Michael Leroy, and moved every six months in her little 8 foot trailer house. They then upgraded to a 10 foot trailer! Following Roy in his job with Mountain Bell Telephone Company. In 1964 she had her first real house in Manitou Springs, Colorado, and had her 3rd child, Penny Ellen.

 As Roy moved up in the company, they continued to move every 2 to 3 years. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 2005 at their Littleton Colorado home. They moved back to the western slope to help care for Ines’ mother, Annie, and then her father, Harley. As time went on, Ines also cared for her husband until his death in 2019. Ines was a volunteer at Delta Memorial Hospital for 19 years until she fell and broke her hip.

In 2019, after Roy’s funeral, she moved to Kansas to live close to Terri and her family. In 2021 she moved in with Terri and Floyd so we could take better care of her. After a month of steadily getting weaker and more unsteady on her feet, she was admitted to the emergency room on Wednesday, May 30th, then to the hospital that evening, then to Hospice in Hutchinson, Kansas on the May 31st where she passed away on June 1st at 11 pm.

She is preceded in death by her parents, her infant sister, Patricia, brother, John, her great grandson, Zander, her husband, Roy, her son, Michael.

She is survived by her daughters, Terri and Penny, 4 granddaughters, Shannon, Micah, Lori, Lisa, 1 grandson, Jeff, 3 great granddaughters, Macy, Jae, Erin, 4 great grandsons, Aiden, Alexander, Luke, and Malcolm, 1 great, great grandson, Jaxson.

I loved having her close to me, I wanted them both to move to Kansas, but dad said he would never leave Colorado. She was thrilled to be able to watch Malcolm and then Jaxson when we had them over. And we were lucky to be able take several 5 generation pictures of us all together.

My mother was a hardworking, intelligent, caring lady, who loved her many family dogs. She worked for several State Farm Insurance agents, and took good care of everyone that she came in contact with over the years. She was very good about remembering everyone’s names and family members in Delta where she lived for so long.